Miles & Kirk | April 2025

Bold Hues Infuse This Chattanooga Home With Personality

By Christine Deorio
Photography by Ali Harper

In decorating, as in life, fear can sometimes hold us back—from making bold moves, from bucking the status quo, from pursuing what we truly love. Chattanooga resident Elizabeth Carriger was no exception to this notion. Although a career in public art administration had filled her days with the kaleidoscopic colors of large-scale art projects, she had been cautious about bringing all of that vibrance into her previous homes. “I always tend to have neutral walls and just let my art pop,” she says.

But when Elizabeth and her husband, Peter Erwin, turned to designer Ryan Kirk Kopet to help them renovate and decorate their newly purchased 1926 Colonial Revival house in the city’s coveted Ridgeside enclave, they nipped that habit in the bud.